What are you? For many people, this question elicits a variety of responses: student, sister, brother, dancer, mother, sports enthusiast. For ethnically ambiguous people, however, the question usually refers to what race they are — or whether they identify as mixed race. Implicit in such a...

For the past twenty years, scholars have referred to a “stall” in the movement toward gender equality. Various measures of gender equality—for example, the gender gap in wages, the total percentage of women in the paid labor force, and the percentage of women in male-dominated occupations—have...

Motherhood costs working women about a five percent per child wage penalty. This “motherhood penalty” in the American job market is well documented. Not only do mothers earn less than similarly-qualified women without children, but they also face discrimination in hiring and promotion.